TheEye used to really respect Newt Gingrich. It was the 1994 Contract With America which won Congress back for the Republicans – with what was the closest thing to pass in dim light for a low-tax, small-government solution to the problems in the US.

But in the last few weeks you’ve got to wonder what has been put in his cornflakes. Endorsing the Democrat-in-RINO-Republican’s Clothes candidate Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 congressional race this week against the conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, and now appearing alongside the botox-faced lying harridan Pelosi to plug a socialist approach to the Great Lie of global warming cooling stuff..

Gingrich 2012? No thanks.